sedecim Latin · revision 32599

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(s)weks, ine-pro *deḱm̥}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈseː.dɛ.kĩː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛː.de.t͡ʃim]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēdecim''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written ''sexdecim''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sex|decem|t1=six|t2=ten]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the long /ē/ by the voicing and loss of /ks/ before /d/, as in [[m|la|sēnī]].^(de Vaan 2008) He traces [[m|la|sex]] to [[itc-pro|*seks]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)weks|t=six]], and compares [[sa|षोडश|tr=ṣóḍaśa|t=sixteen]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, and Lewis & Short cite his ''Rudens''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the plain numeral sixteen, in Plautus, Terence, Caesar, Livy and Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy, Columella and Nepos also have the form ⟨sexdecim⟩, and Livy writes it separately as ⟨decem et sex⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has both ''sedecim'' and ''sexdecim''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # [[m|en|sixteen|alt=Sixteen]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sedecennis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sex]]

+ * [[decem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}